FGM is Morally Wrong

The horror procedure of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is real. It is a global issue. This is a cultural procedure that woman go through. When this procedure happens it is mostly done when they are children. This is a practice that has been done for decades in some cultures, in other cases millennia. In most cases a woman is the one doing the cutting. Even though this woman may have went through the same painful endurance of circumcision it still continues. A lot of people may ask how they do it. The only answer for that is culture. The woman who mostly go through this live in male dominating societies. They do as they are told. The continued "subsurface" practice of Female Genital Mutilation must be stopped in order to defend women hood throughout the world from an ineffectual, unneeded procedure that has been backed by male dominating societies as a means of control, at the expense, and lives, of women.
Americans can’t stop a woman in different countries for believing in their cultural beliefs. FGM being one of them. We can educate them on their rights as woman though. A lot of Americans see FGM as morally wrong and subordination. The woman who practice FGM sees it a lot differently than we do. The procedure to them is about becoming woman and fulfilling obligations to their culture. These woman have a sense of the dangers of this practice. This is something they believe in and are firm to. As Americans all we can do is continue teaching these woman the dangers, and complications and parts of them that they are giving up due to a belief to they cultural that is extremely wrong.
FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) is a female version of circumcision. This primarily happens in Africa, in particular in north-Eastern Africa. It has spread to the Middle East, and south East Asia also. According to estimate by the World Health Organization (WHO) 140 million woman living with the consequences of FGM. When the FGM operation is performed, it usually performed on

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